Reading Klein

by Rustin, Margaret

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Title Statements

Full title :Reading Klein / Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.

Summary

Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein's works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance. Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein's work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself. The book provides a lucid account of Klein's published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis. Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (190 pages.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134832675, 1134832672, 9780415452939, 0415452937, 9780415452946, 0415452945
oclc:on1330992361
LC Classification:BF173
Dewey Decimal:150.195092

<Ol> <li>Introduction and Biographical Note</li> PART ONE <li>Klein's Early Work: Children's Upbringing, Education and Child Analysis</li> <li>Epistemophilia -- the Love of Understanding and its Inhibition</li> <li>Technique in Child Analysis</li> <li>Mourning, the Discovery of the Depressive Position and its Implications for the Theory of Oedipal Development</li> <li>Splitting, the Paranoid-Schizoid Position and the Concept of Projective Identification</li> <li>The Unique Status of Narrative of a Child Analysis </li> <li>Envy and Gratitude</li> PART TWO <li>Introduction to Part 2: Ethics, Aesthetics, Society </li> <li>Kleinian Ethics: the Morality of Love and Hate </li> <li>Kleinian Aesthetics</li> <li>Klein and Society </li> </ol> Suggestions for Further Reading